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RNS Number : 0175Y  Watches of Switzerland Group PLC  04 September 2025

 

 

Watches of Switzerland Group PLC

Result of AGM held on 3(rd) September 2025

 

 

The Board is pleased to announce that all of the resolutions set out in the
Company's notice of AGM dated 11 July 2025 were voted on by way of a poll and
were passed.

 

The final voting figures are shown below.

 

 Resolution                                                                     Total Votes cast  For                  Against             Withheld
                                                                                Number            Number       %       Number      %       Number
 1    To receive the Group's Annual Report and Accounts for the financial       161,370,920       158,532,693  98.24%  2,838,227   1.76%   549,912
 year ended 27 April 2025
 2    To approve the Directors' Remuneration Report                             161,907,134       156,518,279  96.67%  5,388,855   3.33%   13,698
 3    To approve the Directors' Remuneration Policy                             160,593,903       155,556,527  96.86%  5,037,376   3.14%   1,326,929
 4    To re-elect Ian Carter as a director of the Company                       161,905,744       159,900,219  98.76%  2,005,525   1.24%   15,088
 5    To re-elect Brian Duffy as a director of the Company                      161,906,374       161,845,175  99.96%  61,199      0.04%   14,458
 6    To re-elect Anders Romberg as a director of the Company                   161,905,732       161,733,028  99.89%  172,704     0.11%   15,100
 7    To re-elect Tea Colaianni as a director                                   161,905,744       159,764,053  98.68%  2,141,691   1.32%   15,088
 8    To re-elect Rosa Monckton as a director                                   161,906,492       159,414,879  98.46%  2,491,613   1.54%   14,340
 9    To re-elect Robert Moorhead as a director                                 161,906,494       160,243,021  98.97%  1,663,473   1.03%   14,338
 10  To re-elect Chabi Nouri as a director of the Company                       161,905,715       161,508,803  99.75%  396,912     0.25%   15,117
 11  To re-appoint Ernst & Yung LLP as Auditors of the Company                  161,909,633       161,513,779  99.76%  395,854     0.24%   11,199
 12  To authorise the Directors to determine the remuneration of the Auditors   161,910,014       161,518,478  99.76%  391,536     0.24%   10,818
 13  To authorise the Directors to make political donations and expenditure     161,910,755       157,767,258  97.44%  4,143,497   2.56%   10,077
 14  To authorise the directors to allot shares in the Company                  161,910,512       156,355,979  96.57%  5,554,533   3.43%   10,320
 15  To grant the Directors the authority to disapply pre-emption rights        161,908,364       144,748,659  89.40%  17,159,705  10.60%  12,468
 16  To grant the Directors the authority to disapply pre-emption rights in     161,908,571       142,000,531  87.70%  19,908,040  12.30%  12,261
 connection with acquisitions or other capital investments
 17  To authorise the Company to make market purchases of its own shares        161,887,552       161,749,815  99.91%  137,737     0.09%   33,280
 18 To call general meetings (other than annual general meetings) on not less   161,911,574       156,062,068  96.39%  5,849,506   3.61%   9,258
 than 14 clear days' notice

 

 

As at the date of the AGM, the number of issued shares and total voting rights
of the Company was 233,301,622. The Company's Articles of Association set out
that every member who is present in person or by proxy shall have one vote for
every share of which he is the holder on a poll. The scrutineer of the poll
was Equiniti Limited

 

In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2,Watches of Switzerland Group PLC will
submit a copy of the resolutions dealing with the AGM special business
approved today to the National Storage Mechanism and these will shortly be
available for inspection at
https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism
(https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism)

 

For further information, please visit our website thewosgroupplc.com/investors
(http://www.thewosgroupplc.com/investors)

 

The Watches of Switzerland Group PLC

 

Laura Battley

(Company Secretary & General
Counsel)                         +44 (0) 20 7317 4604

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